The people's constitution 200 years, 27 amendments, and the promise of a more perfect union
"The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic"--
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New York :
The New Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- An imperfect Constitution
- The Founding Era Amendments (1789-1804)
- The Reconstruction Era Amendments (1865-1870)
- The Progressive Era Amendments (1909-1920)
- The New Deal : and the amending wave that wasn't
- The Civil Rights Era Amendments (1960-1971)
- The 1970s : and the rights revolution that wasn't
- The Era of Conservative Amendment Politics
- The people's Constitution.
